Snowflakes in July

ISBN-13: 9781511825191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 232 str.

Warren Bell

Opis

Flash back to the violent 1970s. Domestic terrorist bombs explode in the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill, at New York police stations, and on military bases. Prominent moderate leaders are being assassinated. And now a New Left terrorist group more radical than the Weather Underground or the Symbionese Liberation Army has a highly placed mole in the Pentagon The mole electrifies the terrorist high command with details of weaknesses in the storage of Navy nuclear weapons. Elated, the group prepares for a commando raid to steal some of the warheads and force the government to transform the United States into a Marxist society. Back in the Pentagon, Navy Captain Mike Duquesne, a former Vietnam POW, becomes suspicious of the mole and launches a secret investigation. He enlists the aid of Leslie Thomas, a Navy staff lawyer. Alerted by her inquiries, the terrorists target her for blackmail with photos a youthful indiscretion. Luring her to their Virginia hideout, they force her to further incriminate herself under the cryptic codename, "Headmistress." Will Mike's investigation uncover the plot to steal nuclear weapons before the terrorist can mount their raid? And what indignities await Leslie at the hands of the radicals in the meantime? Snowflakes in July has exciting aerial combat scenes, political assassinations, terrorist bombings, high-stakes commando operations, hostage abuse, and torrid romance.